Luke Jung

Luke H. Jung

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Software Development Engineer II

lukethejung@gmail.com (858) 342-6779 lukehjung.com Seattle, WA

Professional Summary

Software Engineer with 5.5 years of experience building high-scale distributed systems and global publishing platforms. Expert in Java, AWS, and Typescript, with a proven track record of leading critical security goals at Amazon, mentoring interns to full-time offers, and driving architectural consolidation for services reaching millions of global users.

Professional Experience

AMAZON: PRIME VIDEO LIVE EVENTS

Software Development Engineer II (Live Events Publishing)

Dec 2023 – Present

Seattle, WA

  • Security Infrastructure: Led a team-wide security initiative to modernize authentication for internal services, performing deep-dive troubleshooting on outgoing network calls to reach 100% compliance with mandated security headers.
  • High-Scale Data Management: Designed a notification system to manage broadcast merges that handled race conditions between concurrent updates, supporting over 400 profile updates in a single workflow execution.
  • Regional Viewing & NBA Support: Implemented "Couch Rights" features to allow customers to access home-market content while traveling and developed validation rules to prevent incorrect content publishing during NBA launches.
  • Partner Onboarding & Ads: Engineered validation guardrails for the Fox partnership in under two weeks and built a system to offer tiered ad-supported or premium viewing options for League Pass subscribers.
  • Operational Excellence: Reduced the manual ticket load for support teams by 90% by creating a new automated error-reporting dashboard that replaced outdated comment-based systems with a readable, tabular format.
  • System Robustness: Resolved flaky integration tests and updated data classification logic to be more resilient, reducing the number of high-priority pages sent to the engineering team during peak live events.
  • Mentorship & Hiring: Mentored engineering interns through the full project lifecycle—including project planning, code reviews, and leadership presentations—resulting in successful full-time hiring offers.
  • Technical Leadership: Conducted 30+ technical and behavioral interviews for various engineering teams, spending time in pre-interview planning and post-interview debriefs to ensure a high hiring bar.

AMAZON: PRIME VIDEO LIVE EVENTS

Software Development Engineer I (Sports Partner Integration)

Aug 2021 – Dec 2023

Seattle, WA

  • System Consolidation: Led a 6-month initiative to consolidate fragmented data systems, migrating 5.5 million records to a centralized service and increasing data coverage from 85% to over 97%.
  • Platform Modernization: Refactored over 50,000 lines of code across 84 software packages to retire older systems, improving overall platform stability for millions of concurrent viewers.
  • Internal Tooling: Architected a visual tool for internal operations teams to better understand and manage complex data relationships, significantly reducing the time spent on manual troubleshooting.
  • Automation & Efficiency: Developed automated reporting pipelines that replaced manual data entry, saving operational teams approximately 5–8 hours of work per week.
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Web Developer

July 2020 – July 2021

Los Angeles, CA

  • Data Migration Automation: Developed automated scripts in Python to migrate over 1,150 complex website assets and researcher profiles, ensuring 100% data accuracy and future system compatibility.
  • CMS Optimization: Optimized content management using Ingeniux, resolving JavaScript compatibility issues and ensuring 100% ADA accessibility compliance and responsive design.
  • Project Planning: Collaborated with academic departments to scope technical requirements and milestones for large-scale content transitions.

Education

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University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Los Angeles, CA

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

Core Coursework:Distributed Systems, Operating Systems, Networking, Algorithms, Databases, Software Engineering.

Technical Skills

Languages

JavaPythonKotlinSQLTypescriptReactNode.jsC++

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS (CDK, Lambda, EC2, DynamoDB, S3, SQS, SNS)DockerCI/CD

Tools & Frameworks

RESTful APIsTestNGSpring BootGitDistributed Systems DesignAgile/Scrum